We’ve been having some problems with our exchange server recently where a service will hang on a restart in the “Starting” state. I finally figured out how to kill the process and restart it:
Open a Dos command shell and type:
SC queryex IMAP4SVC (for the IMAP service)
It will respond with:
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 2 START_PENDING (NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT CODE : 0 (0×0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0×0)
CHECKPOINT : 0×0
WAIT_HINT : 0×7d0
PID : 200
FLAGS :
From here we can find the Proccess ID (PID) and kill the service:
taskkill /PID 200 /F
